Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah

al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah (died 9 December 730) was an Umayyad general who was slain in battle with the Khazars at the Battle of Marj Ardabil in 730 AD.

Biography
al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah was born in Jordan, and he became Governor of Basra in 706 and served until 715. He was then named as Yazid ibn al-Muhallab's deputy for Iraq, and, in 717, Caliph Umar II sent him to serve as Governor of Khurasan. In 719, he was dismissed after receiving complaints about his mistreatment of native converts to Islam, and, in 720, he crushed Yazid's rebellion in Iraq. In 722, he was sent with 25,000 Syrian troops to Armenia to lead the Umayyad offensive against the Khazars, recovering Derbent and massacring the inhabitants of Balanjar in 722. In 724, he captured Tiflis, bringing Caucasian Iberia and the Alans under Muslim suzerainty. In 730, while leading a new offensive against the Khazars, he was met in battle by Prince Barjik in the Battle of Marj Ardabil, where his army was destroyed and he was killed. His head was mounted on Barjik's throne during the rest of Barjik's war with the Arabs.